Question:
I was recently visiting the Hat Industries website (I'm pretty sure it was
their own site, although I suppose it may have been someplace else reviewing
their products).
Anyway, whatever site I was on mentioned Hat is using a differnet (harder?)
plastic for new productions. If so, has anyone tried painting these? If yes,
what success?
Answer:
I should also mention that Veni Vidi Vici is very impressed with the HAT
range and will be bringing out even more decals for their figures and tanks.
http://www.3vwargames.co.uk/z20mm.htm
Selling enough to do 500,000 figures a year, so I guess they do work. Others
may care to chip in with their views.
HAT asked me to do some for their figures and the project has gone very
well - I must admit I know very little about the 20mm plastic figure market,
so HAT advise me.
I have painted the new HAT 1/72 scale tanks and the paint went on without a
problem. I primed the area with black prior to putting on the Olive Drab paint.
Worked fine.
Excellent, I will have to try to recall to add some next time I'm on a buying
spree (visions of grand design for the tabletop, just need time, money, and
opportunity to realize any of that).
I'm slightly surprised the 20mm plastic option isn't more popular. I mean,
compared to metal figures they are really quite cheap. I can see using metal
to fill out the specialists and provide more pose diversity, but the price....
I am learning. Transfer (decal) sheets for 20mm sell
in thousands, as compared to hundreds for 15/25mm designs. As a result the
price can be lowered because of economies of scale. But I -like many
wargamers I suspect - know very little about the 20mm plastic market.
